//NASA mission successfully touches down on asteroid Bennu

NASA mission successfully touches down on asteroid Bennu

After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched down, reached out its robotic arm to collect a sample from the asteroid’s surface and moved away from the asteroid on Tuesday. That sample will be returned to Earth in 2023.To achieve the historic feat for NASA, a van-size spacecraft had to briefly touch down its arm in a landing